Formatting Fonts

Quick reference

• 00:05 In this lesson we're going to apply some basic font colors and
• 00:08 font style changes, just to get familiar with working with the buttons.
• 00:12 If you'll notice, right at the very top, when I click inside the date, you can
• 00:16 click anywhere, place your insertion point anywhere in there, you can take a look at
• 00:20 your quick access bar which probably has your font style and size on it.
• 00:24 So it says Calibri 11.
• 00:25 Notice I'm also on my home ribbon, and my home ribbon identifies Calibri 11 as well.
• 00:31 So what we're gonna do is we're gonna start off by changing that,
• 00:34 instead of a size 11, we're gonna change that to a size 12.
• 00:37 Well, there's a base rule in everything you do on the computer.
• 00:42 The computer only does what you tell it to do.
• 00:44 So if I just leave my insertion point flashing there in 2015,
• 00:47 it's not gonna do anything cuz I haven't selected anything.
• 00:51 So that your job is to highlight the date.
• 00:53 You can start on either side.
• 00:55 You can start from the left and drag to the right.
• 00:58 Even start on the right and drag to the left, it's up to you.
• 01:02 When you do highlight the entire line,
• 01:04 this little item that came up is called a minibar.
• 01:07 Now the minibar which then vanished on me, let's try that again,
• 01:11 the minibar gives you your base formatting tools.
• 01:15 In case you're not on your home ribbon, it hands them to you here on the mini bar.
• 01:19 So I can change them right here just fine.
• 01:21 I'm gonna go ahead and choose this A with the up arrow, which means increase font.
• 01:25 And remember the one next to it means decrease font.
• 01:28 So I'm just gonna go ahead and click that once, and increase to size 12.
• 01:31 While this is here, instead of, oh sure enough it vanished.
• 01:34 So I'll go ahead and use the one on my quick access bar.
• 01:38 I'll hit the drop down arrow, and I wanna make that in Arial.
• 01:41 So wanna make it Arial size 12.
• 01:43 You can visually see the difference right now.
• 01:45 I've got Arial size 12 as my date, but
• 01:48 when I click onto my dear sirs, it flips right back to Calibri 11.
• 01:52 Remember the computer only tells what you tell it to.
• 01:55 If I only highlighted the date and changed the date, that's the only thing it did,
• 02:00 it didn't do anything else.
• 02:02 If I want the rest of the letter to be formatted,
• 02:05 I've got to highlight the rest of the letter.
• 02:06 There's a really fast way to do that.
• 02:08 Now I can do the slow way and click and drag it and work my way down, or
• 02:13 I can press on my keyboard Ctrl + A.
• 02:16 Ctrl + A stands for select all.
• 02:19 So then you go ahead and press Ctrl + A, and
• 02:21 there you have it, I've just selected the whole letter.
• 02:23 I'm gonna click off that and show you one more trick.
• 02:25 If you float your mouse over here in the left hand margin and
• 02:28 you have a, your arrow has reappeared, and triple click, one,
• 02:32 two, three in the left margin does the same thing as Ctrl + A.
• 02:36 So it becomes personal preference, which do you prefer?
• 02:38 There's two ways to do it.
• 02:40 Now that it is highlighted, I want you take a look at your font style,
• 02:44 which is now blank, and your font size, which is now blank.
• 02:47 The reason is, it's finding two different ones, which is true.
• 02:52 My date is Arial size 12, the rest of my letter is Calibri size 11.
• 02:56 So basically I have confused it, and it doesn't know what to do, so
• 03:00 it completely blanked out.
• 03:01 It happens to the best of us.
• 03:03 So what we're gonna do, now the whole thing is highlighted,
• 03:06 we're gonna be the boss, and we're going to tell it, yeah, I'm right.
• 03:09 I want you to be Arial, and I want you to be size 12.
• 03:12 And there you go.
• 03:14 All right, the next thing I wanna do is, we're gonna apply font color.
• 03:18 In order to apply font color, again you have to select a word.
• 03:21 So we're gonna focus on the word video in this whole letter.
• 03:24 Okay, so I'm gonna highlight my first video with a click and a drag, and
• 03:28 I'm gonna come up to my font color, and
• 03:30 the little A with the red underline, and again it's up here on your home ribbon,
• 03:35 just go ahead and hit it straight on and you'll color it red.
• 03:39 Now I'm gonna find the next word video which happens to be right under it on
• 03:42 the second line.
• 03:43 Instead of a click and a drag,
• 03:44 which can get a little cumbersome in tight areas, I'm just gonna double click.
• 03:48 Click click.
• 03:49 Double click the word video, up pops my menu bar, how handy is that?
• 03:53 And there happens to be a font color.
• 03:55 I can hit the drop down right there, and this time I'm gonna choose bright blue.
• 03:59 And I'm gonna find another video, it's right here on the third line,
• 04:02 about midway through on the third line.
• 04:04 I'll double click that word.
• 04:06 And this time I'm gonna make that one green.
• 04:09 There we go.
• 04:11 All right, now if I scroll down, I'm gonna make the word,
• 04:14 sincerely, a different font entirely called Script.
• 04:17 Cuz it's kind of a curly cue handwriting cursive, and so you can scroll down,
• 04:23 whoops, I did not mean to do that, you can scroll down to the Ss.
• 04:28 And you will see the word script come up here.
• 04:32 They are alphabetical, and it's kind of a pretty, again kind of a cursive font.
• 04:35 It's very pretty and it's very nice on personal letters,
• 04:38 certainly not a formal letter, but I did want to show you that at this point you're
• 04:43 ready to go on to the next lesson, but just take a couple more minutes.
• 04:46 Spend some time coloring some words, change some fonts,
• 04:49 experiment a little bit, you're not going to break anything, so this is a great
• 04:53 chance to actually have some fun working with some colors and fonts.
• 04:56 All right, I'll see you in the next lesson.

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